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03:42One member of the group who didn't want to be named was up for sharing her reasons
03:46for attending.
03:47I don't believe they should be here.
03:48I believe that they should stay in their own country.
03:51They come through about six or seven countries that aren't torn.
03:59So I'm a rape victim.
04:01I'm a gang rape victim of three illegal immigrants.
04:05So I have my own reason to be here.
04:09I can't speak for everyone else.
04:12My reason is because I was hurt by three illegal immigrants.
04:17Undeterred by the rain, it was then time to do a lap of the block, with protesters becoming
04:22increasingly more hostile.
04:25We've just gone from the clock tower, there was lots of music, there was lots of flags.
04:29Now everyone's marching together, we don't know where the counter protests have gone.
04:34But as you can see, everyone's got an England flag.
04:37I'm a reporter!
04:40Why are you even on our side?
04:42Don't point that at me!
04:43Don't point that at me!
04:44Don't point that at me!
04:46I'm a reporter!
04:47Leave her alone man!
04:48Leave her alone man!
04:49Leave her alone man!
04:51I'm a reporter!
04:53While campaigners took to the stage to give speeches, I faced verbal abuse for filming
04:59from the crowd.
05:02Why are you allowing me to do a little bit of scum?
05:05She's scum!
05:07She's scum!
05:08You shouldn't be allowed in here!
05:09You're also intervening in what's called provocative behaviour.
05:16We're trying to have a peaceful protest!
05:17You know what you're doing!
05:18You're going to get involved!
05:19She'll f*** every f***ing job!
05:21Yeah, I know she does!
05:22She's a f***ing job!
05:23How can you do your job?
05:24And actually get rid of her!
05:25You know it's starting!
05:26She knows it's starting!
05:28She's going to bust over here!
05:28Yeah!
05:29Go away with her!
05:30Go over here!
05:31On the other side of the square, counter-protesters were making some noise.
05:36Show me what community looks like!
05:40Chanting this is what community looks like, and bearing signs welcoming refugees.
05:45We've got loads of councillors here representing from all parties.
05:48We're not putting our rosettes on today, we're all just marking.
05:51Because everybody who stands for election, I think, from most of the parties you'll see
05:55here, wants to make the world a better place, wants to welcome people, wants it to be a
05:58lovely place to live, and that's what we're standing for today.
06:01People are really struggling, and I understand that.
06:04I just don't think the answer is immigration.
06:07If all the immigrants went home tomorrow, our children still couldn't afford a house to
06:12live in.
06:12We still don't think we'd have good schools.
06:14Impartial reporting on mass demonstrations like these is important to understanding
06:20what matters in a community, and what issues affect residents across the county.
06:26And while Kemp Police confirmed that there were no reports of disruption or any arrests,
06:31no reporter should face abuse and intimidation for doing their job, which includes approaching
06:37both sides for comment.
06:40Megan Shaw in Home Bay.
06:47Well, data has revealed that Medway has three of the most dangerous school runs in the county.
06:53Research from Scrap Car Comparison found that Chatham has the tenth-highest number of crashes
06:59outside schools in the country, with 153 incidents recorded between 2021 and 2025.
07:07Gillingham and Rochester also ranked third and fourth, with 117 and 163 collisions respectively,
07:14with Gravesend ranked second.
07:17Medway Council's Alex Paterson emphasised the importance of the council's school street scheme,
07:22which fines cars for travelling on school roads at peak times.
07:28A man who stole more than £1 million worth of car parts in Maidstone has been put in prison.
07:35We've got concerns that this is a cloned vehicle, so the moment you're detained.
07:41This is the moment as if Iqbal Khan was arrested while driving on the A20 after police believed
07:47he was travelling on cloned number plates. They found a set of keys on him, which ended up
07:52being for a large shed, filled with thousands of stolen engines, body panels and other items.
07:58Iqbal Khan was sentenced to two years and three months imprisonment at Maidstone Crown Court.
08:05Seven county councillors are demanding fairness one year after their controversial expulsion from Reform
08:11UK. The series of expulsions followed a leaked video from a meeting in which Kent County
08:16Council leader Lyndon Kim Caron was heard swearing at members. The group, six of which are now members
08:22of Restore, said their dismissal was shameful. In a statement released by the group last week,
08:28the affected councillors say they are still waiting for proper answers. A Reform UK spokesperson
08:35said they wouldn't comment on the complaints of the councillors expelled.
08:40A new roundabout has been proposed on St Stephen's Hill near the University of Kent in Canterbury.
08:46The reconstruction plan has become necessary over what has been described as an awful junction,
08:51which claimed the life of a university student in 2012, among other casualties.
08:56Responding to the proposal, Kent County Council said the scheme, which is financed by a Department
09:01for Transport grant of £150,000, would drastically improve road safety in the affected area. A decision
09:08is due this winter. Tomorrow is Autumn Budget Day and there's all kinds of proposals flying around about
09:16what Chancellor John Healey will announce. Tariffs dropped on niche food items like waffles and pickles,
09:22minimum wage rises and another freeze in fuel duty are just some of the plans mentioned.
09:27We asked Tudor Price of the Kent and Victor Chamber of Commerce about what his hopes are for the budget.
09:33I think the biggest thing that the Chancellor can do is to leave us alone as businesses.
09:38We've got an absolute sort of kicking back in 2024 with the national insurance contribution uplift.
09:43That's had a seismic effect on recruitment and confidence to invest.
09:48And so I think if he leaves us alone, I think that will be a great outcome.
09:52Well, there's been a lot of talk about them potentially raising the national minimum wage as the national living wage
09:59for younger people. What do you think of that?
10:02Well, what it seems to be doing is penalising young people.
10:05Yes, we understand that the thinking behind it is if the national minimum wage goes up to the national living
10:10wage,
10:11it means that it will be better off to be in work than it would be to be on benefits,
10:15which, again, there's a fair argument in that.
10:18But what it seems to do is it drives employers to think,
10:22well, if I'm going to have to spend this amount of money on a young person,
10:24I might as well spend a little bit more and get someone who has all that experience and previous track
10:29record,
10:30which, again, is disadvantaging those who are perhaps coming straight out of university
10:34or looking to get onto apprenticeships.
10:37So I understand the ideology behind it, but I don't think it's working correctly,
10:41which is why, again, we're looking at maybe some compensatory action around that national insurance contribution
10:48so they could put it up in terms of national living wage,
10:52but they need to then obviously provide some sort of compensatory balance for those that are under 25.
10:58And how can the government kind of balance the challenges that businesses are facing,
11:03especially small businesses, I'm thinking more hospitality, as well as keep young workers happy
11:08and keep them wanting to go for these kinds of jobs?
11:10How do they balance that?
11:12What they need to be doing is providing a consistent long term view that provides a degree of stability and
11:21certainty.
11:21So they could say, right, we're not going to touch national insurance contributions now for the next five years.
11:27Great. OK, that would send that really strong message to the business community.
11:31They have funds.
11:32You know, there are the balance sheets are looking pretty solid.
11:34And I think if those businesses start to invest and start to drive forward projects
11:38that have been sort of held in suspension for a number of years now,
11:42that will encourage consumers who will then start to feel more confident about their jobs
11:47and start to spend more money with the shops, retail, hospitality.
11:51And so the whole thing sort of starts to sort of support and finance itself.
11:55But the government really needs to sort of make sure that they are being responsible,
11:59that they have a bit of a long term plan and that they give the employers reassurance
12:04they're not going to come back to them for more tax.
12:08Well, that's all the time we have in this part of the show.
12:11But coming up after the break, we'll be speaking to some paranormal experts
12:15who are investigating different paranormal situations across Kent.
12:19So we've got plenty more coming your way.
12:22We'll also be taking a look at how we deal with fireworks as well there with our pets
12:29because obviously we know animals can be a little bit wary around them.
12:32So plenty more coming your way. Goodbye.
16:02Hello and welcome back to Kent Tonight Live here on KMTV.
16:06We just want our garden back.
16:09That's the message from a Sheppie couple whose garden has been flooded for weeks
16:13due to a mysterious leak.
16:15It's forced the couple to cut down trees, write off new plants and now totally fence off the garden.
16:22Southern Waters say they don't know what it is,
16:24but the couple say 10 weeks is long enough to figure that out.
16:27I visited them on a rainy day to get a sense of their frustration.
16:32A flooded garden isn't an unusual sight after Storm Austin battered the county over the weekend.
16:38But for this Sheppie couple, they've been dealing with it for months.
16:42They discovered a leak in their garden 10 weeks ago and slowly it's rendered their garden unusable.
16:49Water guys were over the back of the fence and they were looking for a leak there because of the
16:54water running down that side of the fence.
16:57And one of them poked his head over and had a look and he said to us, you know, you've
17:02got a puddle here.
17:03It started off as part of the garden, a third of the garden, then it went to half, then it
17:09went to three quarters and now we've got no garden.
17:13Southern Water have visited multiple times to assess whether the water is waste or fresh.
17:18But the messaging the couple have got hasn't made it any clearer.
17:22There's absolutely no communication from them at all.
17:26I've had two phone calls from them and that's in the last, what, three months.
17:30Not having updates, you know, or having somebody, a case officer, somebody that can actually, we can speak to regularly,
17:46I think it's ridiculous.
17:49When you call them up, it says, thank you for saving water. Every little bit helps. Hypocrisy.
17:57Meanwhile, they've had to fence off the garden, leaving them and their dog Dobby stuck inside.
18:03Poor Dobby, he had the zoomies one day and because the door was open and he ran indoors, it came
18:13out and went straight into the fence.
18:17Of course, we're now coming up to the winter when it's not going to be easy to take him out
18:21for walks because we're both unable to walk very far.
18:24So we have to use scooters and where we used to walk him on the seawall, if he gets too
18:30muddy, we can't take him up there.
18:32So, because we let him off the league there and he can run to his heart's content, but he can't
18:36even do that in the garden now.
18:37A Southern Water spokesperson apologised to them. They said their teams have been investigating since July, but as of yet
18:44have not identified the source.
18:47Sampling suggests the leak is clean water and they're currently excavating in nearby Fawn Hill Road to understand if it
18:53could be coming from there.
18:54They say they've reduced leakage by 25% over the past two years. They say they're grateful to the public
19:00for their support and are continuing to work around the clock to protect water supplies.
19:05In the meantime, Benji's zoomies will have to be restricted to indoors.
19:10Chloe Brewster for KMTV in Sheerness.
19:14A carer from Edenbridge was caught on camera stealing her elderly clients' jewellery.
19:20Lara Jones was secretly filmed by the man's family after discovering missing items from the jewellery box following her first
19:27shift.
19:28Upon returning, she was caught red-handed looking through bedroom drawers before taking £8,000 worth of jewellery.
19:35She pled not guilty after being arrested on site, but was convicted following trial in August.
19:40She faces a three-year prison sentence.
19:44A popular fireworks display in Broadstairs has been cancelled due to a sewer collapse.
19:50The incident happened earlier this month, starting in Victoria Parade and leaking all the way down to Viking Bay, where
19:56the firework event is usually held every year.
19:59Southern Water called in tankers to address the issue, with repairs still ongoing.
20:04A spokesperson for the town council said that they've explored every alternative option for the display to go on,
20:09but the risk to public safety is simply too high.
20:14Let's take a quick look at the weather.
20:22This evening we'll see clear skies with temperatures sticking around 7 to 9 degrees across the county, with loads of
20:288 degrees in Ashford.
20:29Temperatures will be climbing to an average of 10 degrees across Kent in the morning, with highs of 11 in
20:34Canterbury and some sunshine peaking out from behind the clouds.
20:38Into the afternoon, the county is going to see highs of 15 degrees throughout the evening, with the clouds returning.
20:44And for your outlook, temperatures are peaking at 16 degrees across Thursday and Friday, before dipping to 15 degrees with
20:51some clouds there on Saturday.
21:03It isn't long until we'll start to hear fireworks in the sky to mark bonfire night, but they don't go
21:09down so well with everyone.
21:11It's well known that pets can struggle with the loud noises, so how can we best prepare them?
21:16Well, production assistant Astrid Conlon joined me on the sofa earlier, alongside newsroom dog Luna to give us some tips.
21:22So, in anticipation of fireworks night, what is the best way to prepare your pets for the day?
21:28Um, I would suggest to a couple months in advance maybe, or a couple weeks if you haven't thought of
21:35it that far, definitely start playing quiet noises of fireworks and storms.
21:40And maybe every day or every few days, turn the volume up just a tiny bit to try to get
21:45them used to all of the really loud noises and the type of noise that it is essentially.
21:51Um, as well as to take them out on a walk before that it gets to dark, so they don't
21:56associate the walk with the loud noises and get quite frightened about it all.
22:03And during the fireworks, how do we know they're uncomfortable?
22:06Because I mean, Luna's making it very well known that she's uncomfortable in the studio now.
22:11But yeah, on the night of fireworks night, what is the best way to know?
22:14Well, in my personal experience with my dogs, she normally lays her belly down on the, on the tile, which
22:22to cool herself down because she pants quite a lot.
22:25And she shakes a bit and her back legs wobble quite a lot, which is how we know that she's
22:31quite uncomfortable.
22:31But obviously it does really depend on the dog. It depends on their personality and their home life, I suppose.
22:39But, um, yeah. And also if, with, with the dogs, they set very clear boundaries.
22:46So make sure that you don't cross those boundaries.
22:49Like doing that.
22:49Yes.
22:50Yes.
22:51Okay. And why is it that dogs hate fireworks so much, or at least some dogs seem to?
22:57Well, essentially it's because of all of their heightened senses.
23:00Because as we know, dogs have an incredible sense of smell, which is why they're always sniffing things when they
23:05go on walks
23:06and sniffing everyone when they come in and they're always trying to put their senses, their sense on other people.
23:12But as, as well as having a heightened, um, sense of smell, they also have a major heightened sense of
23:20hearing.
23:20So compared to us humans, they can, they can hear things about four times more than we can, or four
23:27times further away than we can.
23:33Um, the, the smell and the sounds of fireworks and thunderstorms and such really stress them out because it's all
23:44very, it just, it happens unpredictably.
23:50And dogs, they like to have a set routine essentially.
23:54So when they hear a loud bang or an unfamiliar smell of gunpowder, it puts them on edge quite a
24:01bit.
24:02Have you ever wanted to see a ghost or does the idea totally terrify you?
24:07Well, Kent and Southeast Paranormal is a private investigation team who does just that.
24:13For free, they visit households, venues and historic locations across the Southeast to help explain the unexplainable.
24:20They've even launched a haunted directory mapping out their spooky sightings.
24:25They joined me on the sofa to tell us more about their unusual hobby.
24:29It's when you go into a location and you know where everyone is, right?
24:34So you have your, like, like Dan said, we've got the two teams.
24:37We know we're split completely, you know, one, one team's on one side of, of the location.
24:43The other team's on the other side.
24:46You can see everyone that's around you, but you're hearing footsteps in another room.
24:52And, and you can't, you know, that, that, that in itself, and it's a small thing really, but you can't
24:57explain that.
24:58You, you just, and even though we still try, we go through the motions, we sort of, we go, you
25:03know, could it be, has anyone in this room moved and, and the sound sort of traveled in a weird
25:08way?
25:08Because that happens as well.
25:09Um, but luckily we do actually have cameras set up in, you know, in, well, a lot of cameras now
25:15that we have to sort of go through.
25:17Um, but, so we can see that no one's moved, you know, we can walk in to, to the other
25:24team to make sure that they, they haven't moved, you know, no one's coming towards us.
25:29Um, and it's moments like that, really, that, that do surprise, surprise us, all of us, really.
25:35I think it's a free service, isn't it, for people, if they can call up and say, I think I've
25:38got something going on in my house.
25:40What is in it for you guys? Why do you do it?
25:44We just want to help people because there's a lot of people that doesn't, don't understand.
25:47Um, a lot of people see these TV shows and things and think they're going to get harmed and things
25:52like that.
25:53And we just want to make people feel comfortable in their own home.
25:56Um, that's what, that's what it is essentially.
25:59Yeah.
25:59We're not in it, in it for any financial gain.
26:01We don't ask for even, um, contributions to petrol or anything like that.
26:06We just, we just want to make people feel happy in their own home.
26:08Um, and then for us as well, it, we're fascinated by it.
26:12So if we can, we can investigate it, um, at any location whilst helping someone else, then, you know, we're
26:20going to jump on, on that opportunity.
26:23I mean, I have to say there will be some cynics who are sat at home going, these guys are
26:29talking nonsense.
26:30What would you say to them who just don't believe in any of it?
26:35Go on.
26:37We're, we're not here to convince people.
26:40We understand, like, I, I, I've been there, you know, I, I've been there.
26:44I've sort of thought, well, I haven't experienced anything.
26:46I haven't seen anything.
26:47I don't know if I believe this, even though, yeah, there were, you know, it was talked about in my
26:53home.
26:53I have gone through a period where I thought this is, this is nonsense.
26:56Um, but you know, all I can say is people, you know, the people experience real things here.
27:03Um, there is something to it.
27:05If you haven't experienced it, that's completely fine.
27:07If you're not interested in it, that's completely fine.
27:09We're, we're not here to sort of, to, to, yeah, to make you believe it.
27:13Um, all I can say is that, you know, others do basically.
27:17And, and that's where we're at, you know, um, until you experience something, it's completely reasonable to not believe it.
27:25Um, and even us, you know, investigating these places, not every creek or not every even footstep is going to
27:32be paranormal.
27:33Even, even when, you know, we have checked the cameras and we have seen that it wasn't one of us.
27:40It wasn't anyone else.
27:40We still don't call that a ghost, a paranormal.
27:43We'll leave it unexplained because we don't know what that is.
27:47We, we don't actually understand what's causing the phenomena.
27:52Well, you've been watching Kent tonight live on KMTV.
27:56There's more news made just for Kent throughout the evening.
27:58And don't forget, you can always keep up to date with the latest news from across your county by logging
28:03on to KMTV.co.uk.
28:05But from me for now, this is it.
28:07See you later.
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